So as someone who does not have an office outside her home and who is her children’s primary educator, the best society seems to be able to offer in terms of titles are “stay-at-home” and “homeschooling” mom. While these terms may accuratelydescribe some moms, they just don’t do it for me. Remember this post? I’d...
Author: Melissa
Catch up
My cousin recently told me this hilarious story about how her childhood dog had hind legs that were faster than her front legs. She described how she would take off running only to have her hind end slowly catch up to her front end creating a tangled mess that would inevitably send her tumbling only...
Happy November!
It’s not often (okay, never) that I get to wish you all a Happy November and post a picture of a recent snow. I was asking our friend who is a local meteorologist if there were any other weather events we could experience this year that could take down trees. So far we’ve had blizzards,...
Fall Formals
I cringe at formal pictures. Mostly because I hate paying for backdrops and pasted on smiles that get thrown in a box in our basement after they hit the blog. But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and pay for the pictures, post them on the blog, relegate them to the basement and...
Classical Education and Learning Styles
Some are claiming that learning styles are a myth. I beg to differ. God, in His infinite wisdom (or humor), graced us with 3 kids and 3 different learning styles. PJ, The Auditory Learner: While he’s a bright kid that doesn’t miss much, he prefers auditory input. He’d rather listen to a book than read...
How Ty Hears the World
Nearly every night Mia ends her prayer with “and I pray for everything I am missing. Amen.” She’s a little paranoid and likes to cover her bases. One night Ty prayed for a toy Mia had lost weeks ago. It seemed out of place but Ty is usually pretty random so we let it slip. ...
Stomp!
‘Tis the season for grape crushing (or stomping). A vineyard not too far from us has an annual grape stomp festival. We’ve been wanting to go for a couple years now and our schedule and the weather finally cooperated this year. Ironically, Ty opted out of the stomping competition because it was too messy. They...